Anders Petersen

Anders Petersen

Associate Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-3595-6275

Office hours: Wednesdays 12:00-13:00

Research fields

  • Visual attention and memory
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Eye tracking, pupillometry and EEG

Research group memberships

  • Center for Visual Cognition (Department of Psychology) 

Research: brief description

Anders Petersen is associate professor in quantitative methods at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on developing tools for investigating human visual attention and short-term memory by using mathematical modeling, eye tracking, and EEG, contributing to the continuous development of the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA; see Bundesen, Vangkilde & Petersen, 2014, and Tünnermann et al., 2022, for latest developments). A major focus of his research has been on the development of paradigms to measure temporal dynamics of visual attention (see Petersen & Vangkilde, 2022, and Petersen & Kyllingsbæk, 2013) and he has developed the first quantitative stochastic model explaining the attentional dwell-time phenomenon (see Petersen et. al. 2012, 2013) and the first TVA model applied to mouse data obtained from the 5-CSRTT attention task (Fitzpatrick et al., 2017).

Grants

  • Are you in control? The Cognitive Control and Arousal Project (CoCoA), Independent Research Fund Denmark (2020-2024).
  • Individualised Diagnostics and Rehabilitation for Attentional disorders (INDIREA), EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (2013-2017), Danish cluster (PI: Prof. Claus Bundesen).

Teaching

  • Course coordinator, Statistics I and II, BA-level.
  • Statistics, MA-level.
  • Summer courses in statistics, BA- and MA-level.
  • Cognitive Psychology, BA-level.

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Decomposing the Attentional Blink

    Petersen, Anders & Vangkilde, Signe, 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 48, 8, p. 812-823

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  2. Published

    Measuring and Modelling Attentional Dwell Time

    Petersen, Anders, Kyllingsbæk, Søren & Bundesen, C., 2012, In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 19, 6, p. 1029-1046 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  3. Published

    Visual Attention in Posterior Stroke and Relations to Alexia

    Petersen, Anders, Vangkilde, Signe, Fabricius, C., Iversen, H. K., Delfi, T. & Starrfelt, Randi, 2016, In: Neuropsychologia. 92, p. 79-89

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  4. Published

    Eye Movements and Practice Effects in the Attentional Dwell Time Paradigm

    Petersen, Anders & Kyllingsbæk, Søren, 2013, In: Experimental Psychology. 60, 1, p. 22-33 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  5. Published

    Advances in the application of a computational Theory of Visual Attention (TVA): Moving towards more naturalistic stimuli and game-like tasks

    Tünnermann, J., Kristjánsson, Á., Petersen, Anders, Schubö, A. & Scharlau, I., 2022, In: Open Psychology. 4, p. 27-46

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  6. Published

    Recent developments in a computational theory of visual attention (TVA)

    Bundesen, C., Vangkilde, Signe & Petersen, Anders, 2015, In: Vision Research. 116, Part B, p. 210-218 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  7. Published

    Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) applied to mice in the 5-choice serial reaction time task

    Fitzpatrick, C. M., Caballero-Puntiverio, M., Gether, Ulrik, Habekost, Thomas, Bundesen, C., Vangkilde, Signe, Woldbye, David Paul Drucker, Andreasen T., Jesper & Petersen, Anders, 2017, In: Psychopharmacology. 234, 5, p. 845-855

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  8. Published

    Phasic alerting increases visual attention capacity in younger but not in older individuals

    Wiegand, I. M., Petersen, Anders, Bundesen, C. & Habekost, Thomas, 2017, In: Visual Cognition. 25, 1-3, p. 343-357

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  9. Published

    Attentional dwell times for targets and masks

    Petersen, Anders, Kyllingsbæk, Søren & Bundesen, C., 2013, In: Journal of Vision. 13, 3, p. 1-12 12 p., 34.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  10. Published

    Interaction Between Object-Based Attention and Pertinence Values Shapes the Attentional Priority Map of a Multielement Display

    Gillebert, C. R., Petersen, Anders, Van Meel, C., Müller, T., McIntyre, A., Wagemans, J. & Humphreys, G. W., 2016, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42, 6, p. 866-877

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  11. Published

    Temporal expectancy in the context of a theory of visual attention

    Vangkilde, Signe, Petersen, Anders & Bundesen, C., 2013, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 368, 1628, p. 1-11 11 p., 20130054.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  12. Published

    Does attention speed up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry

    Tünnermann, J., Petersen, Anders & Scharlau, I., 2015, In: Journal of Vision. 15, 3, p. 1-27 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  13. Published

    Testing attention: Comparing the ANT with TVA based assessment

    Habekost, Thomas, Petersen, Anders & Vangkilde, Signe, 2014, In: Behavior Research Methods. 46, 1, p. 81-94 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  14. Published

    Intensive video gaming improves encoding speed to visual short-term memory in young male adults

    Wilms, I. L., Petersen, Anders & Vangkilde, Signe, 2013, In: Acta Psychologica. 142, 1, p. 108-118 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

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